Friday, August 31, 2007

The Unspoken Thing

Sharon,

I saw something in your blog about Petunia describing history, as it
stands from her point of view. It sounds almost as though new
generations replace old generations, and through this process, a new
culture is born. I suppose that is how cultures experience change over
time, but it does bum me out a bit. My understanding of the Shift thus
far is that all individuals, all around the world, are widening their
awareness, and that all individuals, provided they live long enough,
will begin to discover their inner senses and learn to manipulate
reality in the way that your friend describes. Her description,
however, seems to imply that earlier generations, like yours and mine,
will simply go obsolete, to be replaced by new generations of
individuals with wider awarenesses. I, for one, don't want to stand
around while future generations have all the fun :)

I have some more questions for you to throw at her, if you don't mind.
Could you ask her whether any noteworthy Shift-related events took
place, in *her* version of her past, in 2008 or 2012? I've been
hearing these years bandied about in these kinds of forums, and if her
timeline put some significance on those years, it might mean that a
similar energy will be expressed for us as we experience them.

Finally, Petunia says that we can each actualize the Shift right now,
if we choose. I have also been hearing that for a very long time, from
Elias and others. The problem is that I haven't a clue how to truly
actualize that. They say it's a matter of self-trust, of neutralizing
beliefs. I'd have an easier time trusting myself if I had a direction.
Trust in oneself is only part of the puzzle. The other part is action.
I can sit in my car and trust myself that I'm capable of driving to
San Francisco, but I won't move an inch until I actually start the
car, and I can't start the car if I don't know where to look for the
keys. I may trust my driving abilities, but they don't do me much good
until the car is started. I hope that metaphor makes some sense. My
point in this is that it would be useful if Petunia could offer some
ideas on what we can *do* to actualize the Shift in this moment.

Eagerly awaiting a response from the future,
Steve/Soloron

Steve;
I understand your distress, but Petunia would like to reinforce the fact that anything that she creates in her reality you may create in the here and now, including using the Replicator. In her future time all people are aware that they create their own reality in totality and it is a matter of daily experience. In our time, some people are aware of the theory, but for the most part it remains a theory and not a constant daily personal experience. 

Now, generally people believe that reality creates them and therefore they look outside of themselves for something to happen to them. Even looking for shifty events in particular years is indicative of this viewpoint. There is no one particular event where everything instantly shifts, it is a series of events that shape and mold. Even individual widening of awareness is a slow process, otherwise we would be totally overwhelmed by it and it would appear to be some sort of contagious mental disease.

Individuals do not go obsolete, the social structures and actual buildings go obsolete, because they cannot be used in the same manner as they were before. Some of them are blow up, some fall down due to decay, some are washed away by disaster, and some are willingly torn down and replaced. But all these buildings are simply reflections of mental structures, and how fast we are willing to let go of old established beliefs and turn our values from valuing things outside ourself to valuing the individual. And that is each and every individual with no expectation that they must behave in any particular manner. 

Petunia advises that rather than holding expectation of outside events that you might need to protect yourself from, shift your attention to you. Your reality creation is where your attention is. Notice each time that you use the Replicator and that you are already using it to a large extent without realizing it.  Yes, as you say, you can sit in your car and trust yourself that you are capable of driving to San Francisco, but you won't move an inch until you actually start the car, and you can't start the car if you don't know where to look for the keys. But pay attention to where you do find the keys. Perhaps they are already in the ignition, and perhaps the car is already idling just waiting for you to step on the gas.  Magic happens.

The more you notice the Replicator, the more you trust the Replicator, which in effect is you simply trusting you. 

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A response from the past -

At Petunia's last theme party, 'the hippy days,' there was a conversation about the recognition of the Replicator in the 1960's. 

This is from Tom Wolfe's kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, that chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live long in the counter-culture canon of American literature.

"Chapter - The Unspoken Thing"—quote: "... Cassady pulls the bus off the main road and starts driving up a little mountain road—see where she goes ... they keep climbing and twisting up into nowhere ... It turns out they’re out of gas, which is a nice situation because its nightfall and they’re stranded totally hell west of nowhere with not a gas station within thirty, maybe fifty miles. Nothing to do but stroke themselves out on the bus and go to sleep ... DAWN All wake up to a considerable fetching and hauling and grinding up the grade below them and over the crest comes a CHEVRON gasoline tanker, a huge monster of a tanker. Which just stops like they all met somewhere before and gives them a tankful of gas and without a word heads on into the Sierras toward absolutely NOTHING."

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